Frontiers in Bioethics: Essays Dedicated to John C. Fletcher

Contents:

– Society and the not-so-new genetics: what are we afraid of? some future predictions from a social scientist by Dorothy C. Wertz
– Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg Code on American medical ethics by Jonathan D. Moreno
– Physician-assisted suicide: a tragic view by John D. Arras
– Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics by Franklin G. Miller, Joseph J. Fins, and Matthew D. Bacchetta
– Medicine, eugenics, and the Supreme Court: from coercive sterilization to reproductive freedom by Paul A. Lombardo
– Elective fetal reduction: the ultimate elective surgery by Mary V. Rorty and JoAnne D. Pinkerton
– Managed care: some basic ethical issues by Edward M. Spencer and Ann E. Mills
– The Fletcher legacy: the arrow flies straight and true by Mary Faith Marshall